Active Directory Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Active Directory
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 20 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 17 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 5.86% 4.60% 4.76%
As % of the System Software category 68.00% 61.11% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 7
10th Percentile £180 £185 £231
25th Percentile £188 £190 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £245 £375
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -34.67% +33.93%
75th Percentile £377 £588 £483
90th Percentile £500 £639 £594
England median daily rate £447 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -0.67% +12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.00 £17.80 £19.00
% change year-on-year +29.21% -6.32% +5.56%

All System Software Skills
North East

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 25 18 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 8.62% 7.53% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 23
10th Percentile £181 - £287
25th Percentile £188 £190 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £305 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -41.90% +0.96%
75th Percentile £497 £563 £594
90th Percentile £570 £634 £775
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +65.43% -30.91% +59.89%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in the North East

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in the North East

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in the North East over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the North East region over the 6 months to 17 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +7 15 £263 -56.25% 10
Durham -4 2 £180 -5.26% 2
Active Directory
England

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) WebEx
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Legal
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Support Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (29.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Desktop Support
2 5 (29.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Active Directory Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Mobile Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Billing Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Android
4 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL
1 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
1 4 (23.53%) Service Management
2 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
2 1 (5.88%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (5.88%) ITSM
2 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) A+ Certification
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) Bomgar
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow